Play and ornamental ball



C. E. BARKLEY. PLAY AND ORNAMENTAL BALL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29.1921.

L l Patented Dec. l2, i922.,

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PLAY AND ORNMENTAL BALL.

Application led. January 29, 1921. Serial No. 441,022.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CIIARLES E. BARK- LEY, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada,

` residing at Fort W'illiam, in the District of Thunder Bay and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Play and Urnamental Balls, of which the following is a specification.

The present inventionrelates to playing ornamental or return balls and more particularly to that type-known in the trade, as the composition type of hand ball.

A further object is to provide a d evice of the character described, which is formed of some relatively light material such as wood pulp or ground paper and which when finished assumes the appearance of a snow ball.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the improved ball.

Fig. 2 is a vertical axial section illustratin the preferred embodiment of the device.

ig. 3 is a modified form of ball with the inner filler formed of wood.

Fig. 4 is a similar view with a wood ller, within the outer casing.

Fi 5 is a further modification, illustrat-A ing t e ball with a core, and

Fig. 6 is a fragmental section of the same with a cord attached thereto.

Referring to the drawings like numerals designate like parts in the various drawin s.

n the construction of the im roved ball a quantity of pulp, consisting o old newspapers, or building paper is moulded in solid spherical form as in Figure 1. Then this spherical body is baked or sun dried to impart requisite hardness thereto. A covering 6 of suitable white material, such as white laked .paper and mica paint is then imparted to the outer surface of the pulp core which causes the same to resemble a snow ball.

ln the modilication illustrated in Fig. 3, the ball is formed with a solid wooden core 7 around which is moulded a pulp-casing 8.

' When this pulp casing 8 has been hardened a coat of white paint 9 is added to finish the ball to its particular degree of whiteness.

ln'the modification illustrated in Fig. 4, the ball is formed with a comminuted wooden core 10, around which is pressed a pulp outer covering 11. This pulp outer covering 11 is then painted white or dipped into a suitable solution to transmit to the same the appearance of a snow ball.

ln Fig. 5 the ball is formed with a core l2 of paper and mica flakes and an outer covering of paper pulp 13, suitably dried and beingpainted white as in the other forms descrlbed.

In Figs. 1 and 6 the balls are illustrated attached to return strin s 14 and 15, which extend through the pu p outer casings 16 and have their knottedends 17 embedded with the material lcomprising the core 18. The balls may be formed of shredded cotton fibre mixed with pulp and hardened having the white coating as in the other forms.

It is obvious, that the balls described, due to their light construction and weight and resultant of their white color, the same will look like snow balls andY be resilient. The cords may be secured to the inner cores of the balls during the moulding operation and thus the game of return balll may be played.

Likewise cotton batten may be attached by a proper adhesive to the outer surface of the pulp covering.

From the foregoing it is thought that the l construction of my invention will be clearly understood, and, therefore, a more extended explanation has been omitted.

What I claim as new is:

l. As anew article of manufacture, the herein described ball comprising a core formed of a porous material moulded and dried and an outer'casing of paper pulp encl'osig thesaiid Vcore eed psud'inted white to4 white substmvie i'lpert to the said bell'l I represent a, snow ball and a string having@ the 'appearance of Snow. 10

knotted end embedded in seidl porous maf In testlmony whereof I afi l'n'y Sigheterial. A 4 ture in the presence of two witnesses.v

5 f 2.'As a new article of manufacture, a CHARLES ELIAS BARKLEY. play ball formed with a pepe and mica Witnesses: v f core, a pulp outer casing surrounding said- A. PHILLIPS,

core and said casing belng Vcovered vwith a l R.' BINGHAH. 

